Famous Quotes & Sayings

Napoleon Bonaparte

While I live I will never resort to irredeemable paper.

Olive Schreiner

How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.

Michael Grant

He found a set of encyclopedias—like Wikipedia, but paper and very bulky.

Michael Chabon

See you in the funny papers," he said. Jaunty, he reminded himself; always jaunty. In my panache is their hope for salvation.

Mahatma Gandhi

A bogus Congress register can never lead you to Swaraj any more than a paper boat can help you to sail across the Padma.

James Madison

The most common and durable source of faction has been the various and unequal distribution of property.

Joan Didion

The minute you start putting words on paper you're eliminating possibilities.

Joan Didion

It Was Once Suggested to Me that, as an Antidote to Crying, I Put My Head in a Paper Bag.

Scott Brooks

There's nothing that you can say in the paper that should affect you.

Mao Zedong

Imperialism is a paper tiger.

Mao Zedong

All reactionaries are paper tigers.

Larry Niven

Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.

Lewis H. Lapham

The future is an empty canvas or a blank sheet of paper, and if you have the courage of your own thought and your own observation you can make of it what you will

Joseph Campbell

Chief Seattle, of the Indians that inhabited the Seattle area, wrote a wonderful paper that has to do with putting oneself in tune with the universe. He said

John Lothrop Motley

History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.

John Lennon

I don't know how much money I've got. I did ask the accountant how much it came to. I wrote it down on a bit of paper. But I've lost the bit of paper.

Jim Rohn

The best place to solve a problem is on paper.

Jim Rohn

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Gabrielle Zevin

I have so much paperwork. I'm afraid my paperwork has paperwork.

Karl Kraus

If one reads a newspaper only for information, one does not learn the truth, not even the truth about the paper. The truth is that the newspaper is not a statement of contents but the contents themselves; and more than that, it is an instigator.

Kathryn Stockett

Who knew paper and ink could be so vicious

Maggie Stiefvater

But love isn't quantifiable on paper.

Haruki Murakami

Become like a sheet of blotting paper and soak it all in. Later on you can figure out what to keep and what to unload.

Gustav Mahler

Life's been nothing but paperwork.

Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!

I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers We are the president.

Kirk Kerkorian

You get a checklist, and then you just sort of ride herd on it. It's just a few items on a single sheet of paper.

The rest of the paper wouldn't have to know about it.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Be true to what you said on paper.

John Green

He loved the scratching of pencil against paper when he was focused: it meant something was happening.

Michel de Montaigne

I speak to the paper, as I speak to the first person I meet.

Gilbert Gottfried

Every time you open the paper now, there seems to be another celebrity getting arrest for masturbation. First, it was Peewee Herman and then George Michael. If masturbation's a crime, I should be on death row.

George Washington

Paper money will invariably operate in the body of politics as spirit liquors on the human body. They prey on the vitals and ultimately destroy them